External Services

For certain tasks the SWITCH edu-ID service relies on commercial companies that offer specialized services. In order to work and achieve their goals, these services need some data.

Find below a list of these external services, for what edu-ID relies on them and what data they may receive if you use certain features of SWITCH edu-ID:

Service	Company	Usage Description	Data that service receives
Bouncer	Bouncer Ltd, PL	Passively verify e-mail address of user. Purpose: Determine if an e-mail address is still working or if it should be deleted	Bouncer receives e-mail addresses that it then tries to verify. It reports if e-mail messages are likely to be deliverable to this address or not.
Pingen	Pingen GmbH, CH	Send postal letter with token to user. Purpose: Verify postal address of user	Pingen receives the recipients name and postal address to send a letter to. The letter typically contains a random-generated one-time password that is used to verify the address of the recipients.
SMS Gateway	Mocopay GmbH, DE Clickatell, US (backup)	Send SMS text messages Purpose a): Verify mobile phone number of user Purpose b): Enable user to log in with a second factor Purpose c): End user support	The SMS gateway receives the receiver's phone number to send the text message to as well as the message itself. The message consist typically of a random-generated one-time code.